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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What doctor does the cabbie take Tobias to see in the beginning of Chapter 52?
(a) Dr. Hardwick.
(b) Dr. Peterman.
(c) Dr. Grieves.
(d) Dr. Smith.

2. A bailiff with muddy boots brings Tobias three promissory notes signed by whom in Chapter 50?
(a) Elizabeth Warriner.
(b) Mary Britten.
(c) Mr. Pope.
(d) John Oates.

3. Who is said to be sleeping in the nursery with Tobias’s son after the doctor’s departure in Chapter 54?
(a) Mrs. Jones.
(b) Mrs. Britten.
(c) Mrs. Halfstairs.
(d) Mary Oates.

4. How does Mr. Buckle describe his relationship to Jack when he speaks with Henry in chapter 73?
(a) Jack Maggs is his boss.
(b) Jack Maggs is his son.
(c) Jack Maggs is his rival.
(d) Jack Maggs is his father.

5. Where does Mercy tell Jack she will take him to find Henry at the end of Chapter 84?
(a) Covent Garden.
(b) Buckingham Palace.
(c) Great Windmill Street.
(d) Lineham Hall.

Short Answer Questions

1. How old is Elizabeth in Chapter 61?

2. How long does Mary tell Elizabeth that she’s known about her condition in Chapter 86?

3. Whom does the Thief-taker say he found “who was taken from her mother’s arms” in Chapter 67?

4. Where does the narrator in Chapter 83 says Tobias and Lizzie bought the fire-screen together?

5. Tobias is compared to the hero of what novel written by him as he watches “his liberators pass him by while all the time berating himself for his own cowardice” in Chapter 76?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Tobias gone about securing money to cover his debts in Chapters 56 and 57?

2. What outcome is revealed for Jack and Mercy Larkin in the denouement of the novel?

3. Who appears to meet with Henry in Chapter 73? Why?

4. What exchange takes place between Tobias and Jack in Chapter 55?

5. What physical conflict takes place in the climax of the novel in Chapters 88 and 89?

6. What discussion takes place between Jack and Mercy in Chapter 87?

7. How do Jack and Tobias escape Gloucester in Chapter 70? What dangers do they face?

8. What does Jack discover in Tobias’s notebook in Chapters 73 and 74? How does Jack respond?

9. What occurrences have shaped the prospects of Tobias Oates in Chapter 61?

10. Where have Tobias and Jack arrived in the beginning of Chapter 81? What is their objective at this setting?

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